AcreageIllustration.htm

1 section = 1 square mile = 640 acres

1 Acre = 1/640 of a section

10 acres = 1/64 of a section

160 acres = 1/4 section

36 sections = a township
[6 sections east and west (the range) by 6
sections north and south (the township)]

A half section = 320 acres
(shown in green below)

A quarter section = 160 acres
(shown in pink below)

An eighth section = 80 acres
(half of a quarter,
shown in blue, below)

An sixteenth section = 40 acres
(quarter of a quarter,
shown in yellow below)

One Section
(640 Acres)

10 40 *(NW*	10 AC. *1/4*	10	10	10	10	10	10
of NW 10	*the* *1/4)*10	10	10	10	10 160	10 AC.	10
10	10 80 (S	10 AC. *1/2*	10	10	*(NE* 10	*1/4)* 10	10
10	of NW 10	*the* *1/4)*10	10	10	10	10	10
10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
10	10	10	10 320	10 AC.	10	10	10
10	10	10	(S 10	*1/2)* 10	10	10	10
10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10

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	SS 30 R 8E	SS 30 R 8E	SS 30 R 8E	SS 30 R 8E	SS 25 R 9E	SS 25 R 9E	SS 25 R 9E	SS 25 R 9E
SS 30 TS 16N	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30					SS 25 TS 16N
SS 30 TS 16N	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30					SS 25 TS 16N
SS 30 TS 16N	John Gwin 159.75 SW	owned this Acres 1/4	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30					SS 25 TS 16N
SS 30 TS 16N	S TS R.	30 16N 8E	40 Ac. S. 30	40 Ac. S. 30					SS 25 TS 16N
SS 31 TS 16N	40 Ac. S. 31	John Gwin owned this 80 AC E1/2 of NW 1/4	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31					SS 36 TS 16N
SS 31 TS 16N	40 Ac. S. 31	of S. 31 TS 16N R 8E	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31					SS 36 TS 16N
SS 31 TS 16N	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31					SS 36 TS 16N
SS 31 TS 16N	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31	40 Ac. S. 31					SS 36 TS 16N
	SS 31 R 8E	SS 31 R 8E	SS 31 R 8E	SS 31 R 8E	SS 36 R 9E	SS 36 R 9E	SS 36 R 9E	SS 36 R 9E	.